Into the Breach
with General Wayne Eyre
Hosted by Dr. Andrew Burtch
Fall Festival In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir
Eyre’s account offers a rare and honest window into what it takes to lead with clarity when the ground itself is shifting. These are lessons as important to soldiers as to anyone charged with leading an institution through crisis. This is a book that deserves to be read not just by those in uniform, but by anyone who will one day be asked to lead when it matters most.
Join us for the launch of Into the Breach: A Soldier's Journey from Canada's former top soldier, General Wayne Eyre, on his career as a soldier and his thoughts on our Arctic sovereignty, our relationship with the United States, and our place in the world during Canada's greatest time of need.
General Eyre led the Canadian Armed Forces through multiple, overlapping crises and its most challenging period in generations. He was the most senior Canadian military officer ever permanently stationed in the Indo-Pacific region when he became the first non-American Deputy Commander in Korea of United Nations Command. He commanded the reconnaissance platoon in the Battle of the Medak Pocket, Canada's largest battle between the Korean and Afghanistan Wars. And he commanded the unit mentoring the Afghan National Army in Kandahar, up to that time Canada's largest ever combat advisory mission.
At home, he describes battling floods and forest fires across Canada, supporting the country during the worst of COVID, and, behind the scenes, fighting in the halls of power to get the resources needed to defend our nation as the threat levels increased every day, especially to our arctic sovereignty.
Into the Breach is a tribute to the rich history of our military and its members in a changing age dominated by increasing threats, global disorder, and unrelenting operational demands for the Canadian Armed Forces.
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